[Please do not remove Cc: freebsd-questions] On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:55:31AM +0530, Akthar Hussain wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > Thanks for your reply. > > But why a normal user can able to start GDM withou loging as root. > > since a normal user able to start GDM, i thought KDM also possible.
Are you sure about this? In order to validate passwords, the program needs to be able to acess master.passwd, readable only by root. Even the stock-standard xdm needs to be started up as root. -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
